Hemidactylus depressus Gray 1842
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Description
Hemidactylus depressus Gray, 1842 — Non-native; Introduced.
Kandyan Gecko
Singapore records.
Nubilia Argentii — Gray, 1845: 273.— Hoffmann, 1890a: 1196.
Hemidactylus depressus — Boulenger, 1885: 135.— Flower, 1896: 865.—Ridley, 1899: 206.— Boulenger, 1912: 43.—Sworder, 1925a: 64.— Chasen, 1925: 100.—Smedley, 1932: 11.
Remarks. Endemic to Sri Lanka (Somaweera & Somaweera 2009a), a specimen of H. depressus was attained by Argent and is preserved at NHMUK with the locality Singapore (Gray 1845; Boulenger 1885). Boulenger (1912) stated that H. depressus inhabits Sri Lanka, but did not mention whether he found the Singapore specimen dubious. Sworder (1925) did doubt the locality of the specimen and stated that the individual likely reached Singapore as a stowaway. Smedley (1932) also agreed that the locality was incorrect and removed it from Peninsular Malaysia’s checklist. Subsequently, Taylor (1953) corrected and restricted the type locality for N. argentii to “ Ceylon ”, and Batuwita & Pethiyagoda (2012) agreed that the type locality is “ Sri Lanka ”.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Hemidactylus
- Species
- depressus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemidactylus depressus Gray, 1842 sec. Figueroa, Low & Lim, 2023
References
- Gray, J. E. (1845) Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees [of the British Museum], London, xxviii + 289 pp.
- Hoffmann, C. K. (1890 a) H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des their- - Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Sechster Band. III. Abtheilung. Reptilien. II. Eidechsen und Wassrechsen. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 443 - 1399, pls. 49 - 107.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1885) Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). 2 nd Edition. Vol. I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. Taylor and Francis, London, xii + 436 pp., 32 pls.
- Flower, S. S. (1896) Notes on a collection of reptiles and batrachians made in the Malay Peninsula in 1895 - 96; with a list of the species recorded from that region. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896 (4), 856 - 914, pls. 44 - 46.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1912) A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore, Including the Adjacent Islands. Reptilia and Batrachia, Taylor and Francis, London, xiii + 294 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10813
- Chasen, F. N. (1925) On the introduction of an Australian skink into Singapore Island. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3 (1), 99 - 101.
- Batuwita, S. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2012) Rediscovery of the Sri Lankan ' house gecko' Hemidactylus pieresii Kelaart (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) with a redescription of Hemidactylus depressus Gray. Zootaxa, 3359 (1), 17 - 30. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3359.1.2